frisch eingetroffen - what works | English version

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‘frisch eingetroffen’ understands itself as platform for young international performing arts, as an offer for artists as well as audience to try out the new, to question their routines of working and perception, an offer for dialogue and discourse. This year we extend ‘frisch eingetroffen’ [new arrivals] with the additional title ‘what works’. With artists from Estonia, Spain, USA, Germany and Austria we undertake an experiment: How does performance work outside the art space? Everyday sites and noises - no spotlights no shelter. How can artistic works be adapted to the „outside“ and how do they change in the different context?

The artist will try out their concepts and works in public on the square in front of Abendakademie Mannheim and in the foyer of the Collini Center. From 12th July on there will be rehearsals and research-phases held at both locations. The results of these try outs will be presented on the 14th and 15th of July on site. On Saturday all three shows will be presented in their original concept in the art space at zeitraumexit.

14.7. | 8 pm | Collini-Center | TRY OUT

FOCUS (PHASE II)
SCHAITL/COSTA/SCHILLING
Duration: ca. 40 minutes | Concept: Jasmin Schaitl, William "Bilwa" Costa | Performance, Score, Choreography: Elisabeth Schilling, Jasmin Schaitl, William "Bilwa" Costa

focus (II) is the second phase of an inter-disciplinary project; which equally emphasizes performance, dance, acoustic sound, and visual elements. Using these elements, a trio of performers expand and contract the physical and sonic performance space, both suggesting and exposing points of focus to the audience. Gradual, abstract, and without narrative, the intention of focus (phase II) is to provide an audience time to assess, interpret, and propose her/his own meaning and content, from an individual perspective.

15.7. | 8 pm | Abendakademie U1 | TRY OUTS

IT’S LOOKING LIKE A CASTLE IF YOU DON’T LOOK UP
KEIL/STEPANOV
Duration: ca. 35 minutes | Choreography and Performance: Laura Keil, Ruslan Stepanov

Why do our egos constantly compete each other? Why do we often try to compromise with each other? How is it that we fall into routines and how do we avoid this tendency? “It’s looking like a castle if you don’t look up” is a dance performance based on exploring mix culture relationships through personal experiences.
“Our aim was to find a common language in which we can communicate with each other even if we have a background of different cultures. By researching how to create a new common vocabulary we found a specific nonverbal language which we both would understand and which would give us the freedom to be ourselves.”
Cultural differences can introduce certain challenges; these challenges are certainly manageable within the context of respectful and supportive relationships.
“It’s looking like a castle if you don’t look up “ was supported by K77, TheaterhausBerlin Mitte, Tallinna Tantsuteater and Estonian Culture Capital.

HOW A PERFORMANCE IS MADE?
TWINS EXPERIMENT
Duration: ca. 50 minutes | Concept & Performance: Twins Experiment (Laura Ramírez, Ainhoa Hernández)

It is the question from which Ainhoa and Laura start
It is a common practice
It is a search

It is a transformation journey 

It is a learning
It is an apparatus
It's a game

It is the warm-up for which is coming

How is a performance made? This is the question from which Ainhoa Hernández and Laura Ramírez started working together and generating a common practice. This first piece of Twins Experiment is a collage of materials that is edited in real time, creating a different composition every time it is performed. The objectivization of their bodies and movements multiply the triggers and possibilities of combination of the materials with which they play. Throughout the piece, the space is transformed according to the materials that appear, which produces a landscape-like installation on stage. The (game) structure of the piece is characterized by process and therefor risk, which leaves the two artists exposed and vulnerable within their own piece. Multi-tasking, over-stimulation and mass culture consumption – states and effects of our present times - stand in contrast to the relationship they allege as “twins”, not as single individuals, but as symbiotic collective.

16.7. | 8 pm | zeitraumexit | STAGE VERSIONS

FOCUS (PHASE II)
SCHAITL/COSTA/SCHILLING

IT’S LOOKING LIKE A CASTLE IF YOU DON’T LOOK UP
KEIL/STEPANOV

HOW A PERFORMANCE IS MADE?
TWINS EXPERIMENT

The event is financially supported by the Innovationsfonds Kunst Baden-Württemberg, the Cultural Department of the City of Mannheim as well as by stadtmobil carsharing.

Advance booking ended.
Few tickets at the box office on Saturday.